One-of-a-kind souvenir records: one from the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition
and one from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

World's fair souvenir recordsBird's Eye View of the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition.
[Officially, it was called "The Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair"!]
Image courtesy of Expositions Nationales

The Columbia Phonograph Company ran booths at both the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and
the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon.
They made available tiny souvenir cylinder records, recorded on the spot.
These records  also known as napkin ring cylinders 
were the same diameter as standard two-minute wax records, but were a stubby 1.5" tall.

The records came packaged in an equally tiny, but handsome custom carton.

Company

Columbia Phonograph Company

Cylinder #

None

Category

Talking

Title

Souvenir record from the 1905 Lewis & Clark Exposition

Performed by

Donna & Gladys of Albina (in Portland)

Circa

August? 31, 1905

Announcement

"I'm just talking to hear myself talk . . ."

The recordings, of course, are one-of-a-kind and quite short 
typically just over 40 seconds.